[a_shoeboy]

25 years ago, I had a Honduran roommate who barely spoke English. One day he came home with a thrift store VHS on how to make longbows and he watched that thing over and over like it would tell him the meaning of life. I hope he finally got ahold of some yew wood and made one.

[sleepybrett]

I mean, I've certainly watched Adam Savage and other youtuber's build random stuff on a lazy sunday morning, or as a background to getting some housecleaning or work done, or while I'm working on building my own random thing.

I find it pretty gratifying and I'm not even going into those videos to learn what they are specifically doing most of the time, but still often I'll pick up a technique or two.

My selfbow staves (four of them in case I fuck them up or want to try again) are currently in my friends garage over by the furnace drying, it's kinda the biggest bummer to making your own bow step 2 (1. Acquire a stave 2. Wait for it to dry (for many months probably)).